User Head Movement Recognition and Interpretation System for Computer Interaction

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to describe a system for the head gesture recognition developed in the frame of INTEROB project1. The goal of this project consists in developing an interaction based on gestures with information on robotic systems. In the paper we discussed a method for controlling the mouse pointer movements on the screen by recognizing the operator head movements captured by a video camera. In the second part of the paper it is described a fast and accurate method for hand posture recognition in video sequences.

Keywords

• human computer interaction
• gesture recognition
• image processing
• face recognition
• Haar-like features
• camshift algorithm